Road Rules: Latin America

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This was the seventh season of Road Rules. It took place in Latin America in the countries of Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Belize.

[edit] Cast

• Josh Florence, 21, from Austin, Texas: Battle of the Seasons
• Abe Ingersoll, 18, from Peoria, Illinois
• Brian Lancaster, 23, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
• Sarah Martinez, 21, from New Orleans, Louisiana
• Gladys Sanabria, 20, from Boston, Massachusetts: Battle of the Sexes
• Holly Shand, 20, from Durango, Colorado: Challenge 2000, Battle of the Seasons, The Inferno

[edit] Memorable Moments

• This cast adopts the first ever Road Rules dog, Menudo. They got the dog after their first mission was to find the key to the RV which was attached to the collar of a chihuahua amidst hundreds of other chihuahuas in a stadium in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, leading to the dogs viciously biting everyone in the cast in the process of trying to find those keys.
• The cast runs alongside the Rarimuri tribe of Mexico in a grueling marathon in which they have to run for miles kicking a small wooden ball.
• The cast makes a spaghetti short for a Mexican film festival.
• After the Road Rules Face-Off with Down Under, Gladys confronts Abe for hooking up with Susie of the Down Under cast in the "messy" RV, although Abe and Susie's activity was consensual and not really any of Gladys' business. In response, Abe repeatedly calls Gladys a "bitch", and Gladys looses control of herself, physically assaulting Abe as they were preparing to leave a hotel for their next destination. Although the cast largely sided with Gladys in the dispute because they had gotten sick of Abe's behavior and the fact that he was antagonizing Gladys, in fact Gladys is sent home as the first Road Ruler to ever be kicked off the series. Holly later had a discussion with Abe where she firmly but not angrily pointed out his part in the debacle, without casting all the blame on him for it; Abe apologized to the group and was able to finish the season without further incidents.
• The cast completes a guerrilla-style mission to get Volkswagen beetles.

[edit] Trivia

• The only time in the history of Road Rules where a castmember was not replaced after being sent home.
• The cast actually called Mary-Ellis Bunim at a payphone in Mexico to ask her to bring Gladys back. This effort was actually spearheaded by Abe himself, who regretted his role in sending Gladys home. After consulting with Jonathan Murray, it was decided that Gladys could not be brought back because of legal issues ("liabilities" ensuing from the matter). Also, she was pregnant (as she would also be when appearing in a later Challenge show).
• After the show wrapped, it was revealed shortly after that Abe was somehow able to "hack" into the network of computers at the Bunim-Murray Production headquarters in Van Nuys, California. During the casting process, Abe was able to access several documents kept during casting that detailed his interviews and what they were looking for specifically in the casting sessions. The producers knew of his computer background, which was mentioned as him being a "computer genius" on the first couple episodes of the show, but they didn't know he had seen those documents until after they finished filming.

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